[Libya Observer] 37 unidentified bodies were found on Thursday in Dignity Operation’s stronghold town of Abyar, 50 km to the east of Benghazi.

Local sources said the bodies were found in Kassarat Road with signs of torture and gunshots to the head and chest.

The new crime comes just days after the discovery of bodies of two Ajdabiya rustics in Zeet Street in Benghazi.

The bodies were taken on trucks to the morgue of Benghazi Medical Center for forensic analysis.

In an unprecedented step, the interior ministry of eastern government has demanded an investigation into the crime to identify the perpetrators, which is seen by observers as a political maneuver to calm down growing anger over the dead bodies that are discovered every now and then.

Some Facebook groups loyal to Dignity Operation met the news of the dead bodies with joy, identifying the bodies as for "the Kharijites", a term Dignity Operation uses to describe its opponents.

[AlAhram] Egypt's security forces killed 13 high-risk terrorist elements on Friday during a raid on an abandoned ranch building located at the 47km mark on the Assiut-Al-Kharga Oasis highway, the interior ministry said in a statement.

The operation "resulted in the seizure of a large amount of arms and ammunition, including detonative charges and boom belts, that were in the possession of the terrorist elements, who started opening fire at security forces upon their arrival at the shootout site," the statement said.

The approximate location of the raid is around 234 km south of Cairo.

"Security forces are currently working on identifying the slain terrorist elements, while the shootout resulted in some damages to a security vehicle."

The operation comes as part of the ministry's effort to eradicate terrorist hideouts in remote areas of Giza and of Upper Egypt governorates, said the statement.

The state-run MENA news agency quoted an unnamed Interior Ministry official as saying the shootout was in the New Valley province, which covers a vast area of the western desert and shares part of the mostly non-existent border with Libya.

[PRESSTV] Yemeni air defense forces, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have reportedly shot down a Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet belonging to the Royal Saudi Air Force, a report says.

Yemen's air defense unit told the country's Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that the aircraft had been targeted with a surface-to-air missile as it was flying in the skies over Nihm district east of the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a on Friday evening.

The report added that earlier this month, the Yemeni forces, using a surface-to-air missile, had also shot down a US-made General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force.

In June, Yemeni air defense forces also intercepted and shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet in the skies over Sana’a.

According to Yemeni military officials, the invading aircraft had taken part in deadly Arclight airstrikes against residential neighborhoods in the Arab country.

Khweis left the US in 2015, and entered Syria via Turkey to fight for the militants

The 28-year-old agreed to become a suicide bomber for the group

Khweis was with the group for about three months until he was captured by Kurdish fighter and returned to US authorities

Security experts say about 250 Americans have joined ISIS.

At the time of his surrender he was carrying three cell phones, three forms of ID including his Virginia drivers licence, and a large amount of cash. No doubt the CIA and FBI found the phones interesting.

According to Breitbart, of the 129 known American ISIS recruits, American authorities have no idea where 122 are.

[DAWN] Awami National Partyfounded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... (ANP) local leader Abdul Razzaq and his brother were killed in an kaboom in Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...'s Harnai district on Friday morning.

Deputy Commissioner Harnai, Abdul Salam Achakzai told DawnNews that the bomb may have been planted in their vehicle.

According to the deputy commissioner, the bomb went off as soon as the two men entered their car to travel to Pishin to participate in a public meeting.

The kaboom destroyed the ANP leader's vehicle completely.

Levies forces and the police reached the spot; investigation into the incident is underway.

[DAWN] At least five passengers were maimed in a blast targeting a passenger train in Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...'s Bolan district on Friday.

Levies sources said "miscreants" had targeted the Akbar Bugti Express passenger train in the Hirak area of district Bolan.

Bogie Number 9 was partially damaged from the impact of the blast, which rocked the entire area, sources added.

The injured were rushed to nearby Mach hospital for medical treatment, where an emergency had been declared.

Frontier Corps...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... personnel, levies and police reached the spot as investigations into the incident went underway. The affected train was later brought to the Mach Railway Station.

[DAWN] Pakistain Army said Friday evening they had shot down an 'Indian' quadcopter they suspected of 'spying' on the Rakhchikri sector of Azad Jammu and Kashmire.

From the pictures tweeted by the director general of Inter-Services Public Relations, the army's media wing, it seemed that the quadcopter being used was of the commercially available variety of drones.

The army said it had seized the wreckage, likely for analysis purposes.

The story followed the Foreign Office's (FO) weekly briefing earlier in the day, in which the FO spokesperson had criticised US plans to sell drones to India as part of a military deal.

FO Spokesman Nafees Zakaria said the balance of power in the region would be disrupted because of the deal, and that providing sensitive military technology to India was akin to incitement of its 'misadventures'.

[ALMASDARNEWS] A massive Iraqi military convoy was filmed traveling towards the Syrian border, Friday, as they join the battle to clear the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....’s (ISIS) last pocket in Iraq.

The Iraqi military convoy was primarily made-up of Hashd al-Sha’abi (Popular Mobilization Units) fighters, but there were also army and federal police forces making their way towards the border-city of al-Qa’im.

Video footage of the convoy traveling towards the Qa’im-Albukamal parallel was released by Hashd al-Sha’abi’s official media wing on Friday

[IsraelTimes] Tawfiq Abu Naim, director general of the internal security forces, said to be in moderate condition after kaboom in his car; Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, sources say Islamic State button men main suspects.

The head of Hamas security forces in the Gazoo Strip was injured Friday when his car went kaboom! in what the Hamas interior ministry called "a failed liquidation attempt."

It did not immediately give details of the source of the kaboom, in central Gazoo.

"Tawfiq Abu Naim, director general of the internal security forces, survived a failed liquidation attempt Friday after his car was blown up in the Nusseirat refugee camp," a ministry statement said.

"He was moderately maimed and was treated in hospital," it added. "The security services immediately began investigations to discover the circumstances of the incident and to catch the perpetrators."

The incident comes at a time of tension within Gazoo as its Hamas rulers are to start handing over power to the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority of Fatah leader and Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...Both Hamas and Fatah condemned the incident and blamed it on "enemies" trying to undermine the reconciliation. However,a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... neither named the enemies, an unusual step for Hamas, which routinely blames Israel for such events.

A Hamas source told the Ynet news site that Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... affiliated Death Eaters were the main suspects.

As part of the Paleostinian unity deal that was brokered by Egypt, Hamas has had to crackdown on the IS button men who have been active on both sides of Gazoo’s border with Egypt have been fighting a bitter insurgency in the Sinai that has killed hundreds of Egyptian soldiers.

Abu Naim has been leading the recent Hamas efforts against IS.

However,a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the Popular Resistance Committees, a group of smaller terror groups in the Strip, blamed Israel, saying "the fingerprints of the Zionists are clear."

Abu Naim was a former prisoner that Israel freed with hundreds of others in exchange for IDF soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011.

[Inquirer] The main battle zone in Marawi City resembles a tsunami-hit wasteland, with bullet-riddled mosques and a network of tunnels testifying to militant hide-and-kill tactics. Two days after the Philippine military declared an end to the five-month conflict, scrawny feral dogs and swallows flying above the ruins were among the few signs of life in the city's devastated neighborhoods.

Many buildings were just piles of gray rubble. The pink minaret of one mosque was so riddled by gunfire that most of its plaster had been stripped off and only its iron beams remained. A brief tour for journalists on Wednesday showed some of the terrorists’ ratlike survival techniques, including the digging of holes through concrete floors up to 25 centimeters thick. These connected to Marawi's drainage system, allowing them to scramble to nearby buildings undetected.

Samuel Yunque, commander of an Army Special Forces unit that fought the entire campaign,said the military also adapted to rebel tactics by blasting their own “rat holes” in walls between buildings so troops could move quickly without going back into the open streets.

In the early days of battle, Yunque said, his unit took two days using conventional tactics to rescue 16 crewmen of two armored vehicles that had been disabled by rocket-propelled grenades. He said, “They were surrounded by snipers on tall buildings and they were attempting to burn them alive by tossing molotov [firebombs] at their vehicles. When we rescued them they were singed and down to their shorts. They had their firearms but they had not eaten for days and were about to run out of bullets."

Romeo Brawner, deputy commander of the military task force, said on Sunday that the terrorists were trapped in a two-story commercial building by Lake Lanao. However, the final battle on Monday took place inside a mosque, claiming the lives of two soldiers and 42 militants, Armed Forces chief of staff Gen. Eduardo Año said.

At least 920 militants were killed during the siege of Marawi, while 165 troops and 47 civilians died, according to the military. The fighting displaced about 400,000 people, and made the eastern half of the city uninhabitable for many years. Authorities are only now beginning to grapple with a multibillion-dollar rehabilitation program.

[Bangkok Post] A ranger volunteer taking leave to care for his sick mother was gunned down outside his house in Narathiwat province early on Sunday night. Subae Waeyeengo was hit by two bullets in front of his home in Cho Airong district. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Security forces sent to the scene on Sunday night were unable to find evidence pointing to the killer. Subae had taken leave from his outpost to visit his sick mother at this home. He was walking outside the house, taking a break, when the killer shot him. Neighbours who heard the shots found him lying on the ground grievously injured.

New photos released by Liwa al-Quds (pro-government Paleostinian paramilitary) show a heavily armored vehicle that was captured from the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... not long ago on the eastern side of the Euphrates River in Deir Ezzor.

After capturing the vehicle, intended to be driven by an ISIS jacket wallah, Liwa al-Quds decided to integrate it alongside its own technicals and as such, it will be deployed against ISIS in coming counter-insurgency operations in Deir Ezzor province

During recent battles in djinn-infested Mosul... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn..., Raqqa, Tal Afar and Deir Ezzor, this specific type of vehicle ‐ a simple civilian car modified with armored plates ‐ has become the most standardized type of ISIS boom-mobile.

Next up, Major General Suheil al-Hassan has been tasked with seizing the major border city of Abu Kamal. Once this jihadist bastion falls under SAA control amid the next stage of the ’Big Dawn’ offensive, ISIS will have its days numbered in Syria.

[ALMASDARNEWS] A high ranking commander of the Free Syrian Army... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) was killed in the northern countryside of the Dara’a Governorate, Friday, after his vehicle struck a roadside kaboom.

Hassan al-Hawshan and several of his fighters were traveling along the Zamreen-Umm al-Usaj Road in northern Dara’a, when his convoy was abruptly halted by a roadside kaboom, rebel activists claimed.

At least five FSA fighters were killed and four more were maimed as a result of this roadside kabooming.

No group has grabbed credit for the attack, but rebel activists are accusing the Syrian Army (SAA) of planting the roadside kabooms that killed their commander.

[ALMASDARNEWS] Yet another high-ranking commander of terrorist group Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has been killed in Idlib Governorate, this time Abu Talha al-Ardni.

Al-Ardni, a Jordanian citizen and high-ranking "emir" of Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham, an affiliated organization of al-Qaeda that was formerly known as the al-Nusra...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, was killed by an improvised bomb (IED) near Maar Dibsah in the western countryside of Idlib province.

Abu Tala al-Ardni was known as one of the most hardline HTS commanders, and was notorious for his extreme views even within the terrorist organization. For example, he was opposed to HTS going to war against ISIS, and was also an opponent of the organization’s ties to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire..... When Ottoman Turkish troops entered Syria recently, al-Ardni even called on Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham to fight them. While it is unclear so far who killed the Jordanian "emir", chances are that he was killed for these views.

[ALMASDARNEWS] A large convoy of Syrian Marines departed from the coastal province of Latakia, Thursday, to begin a new operation in Syria’s Badiya al-Sham area near the Jordanian and Iraqi border.

According to a military source, the Syrian Marines will attempt to clear the remaining rebel pockets in the Badiya al-Sham area, while also advancing towards the U.S. occupied Tanf Military Base near the Iraqi province of al-Anbar.

The Syrian Marines will be led by their commander, Colonel Aymen Jaber &dash; a successful Syrian businessman that joined his elder brother, Mohammad, in forming two powerful paramilitary forces inside the country.

The Syrian Marines are a battle-tested paramilitary force that have participated in several battles across Syria, including the northeastern Latakia and Palmyra campaigns.

[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Defense Ministry has reported about the substantial advances made in fighting against terrorism in Syria. The Russian sappers have deactivated nearly 1,000 of various bombs, while hundreds of gunnies positions had been defeated by the Aerospace Forces.

Russian sappers have cleared 33 hectares of the territory in and around the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor in the past 24 hours, destroying more than 960 explosives, Russian Defense Ministry’s Center for Syrian reconciliation reported on Thursday.

"In the past 24 hours, 33 hectares of the territory of the city and its suburbs, six kilometers of roads, and 35 buildings were demined, 963 explosives were discovered and destroyed," the center said in a statement.

According to the document, a total of 741 hectares of territory, 183 kilometers of roads, and 1,522 buildings have been inspected since the start of the Russian demining operation in Deir ez-Zor, 37,517 explosive items have been found and destroyed.
The Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed over 650 targets of various terrorist groups in Syria in the past week, according to an infographics report by the Russian Defense Ministry.

The report, posted on the website of the Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) newspaper, the official publication of the Defense Ministry, says the Russian combat planes operating in Syria have carried out more than 360 sorties during this period.

By mid-October, the Russian campaign in Syria had resulted in more than 92 percent of the country’s territory being liberated from terrorists.

[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) launched a big offensive in the northeastern countryside of Hama earlier this week, targeting the large patch of territory controlled by the al-Qaeda linked Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group near the Ithriya-Khanasser Highway.

Led by the Qalamoun Shield forces of the 3rd Division and 4th Mechanized Division, the Syrian Arab Army stormed this area north of Salamiyah City in a bid to secure their primary supply route to the Aleppo Governorate.

Since launching this offensive earlier this week, the Syrian Arab Army has captured several villages and towns in the Salamiyah countryside, inching their forces closer to the al-Qaeda stronghold of al-Rahjan.

Rahjan is a large town located directly west of the Ithriya-Khanasser Highway and just south of the Hama-Aleppo provincial axis; it is also the location of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s largest military base in the Hama Governorate.

On Friday, the Syrian Arab Army continued their rapid advance towards Rahjan, capturing several towns from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham after breaking through their main line of defense east of the jihadist stronghold.

[PRESSTV] Syrian government forces have liberated a new area on the outskirts of the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr as they continued their advance against the foreign-backed ISIS terrorists.

The Friday development came as the Syrian army and its allied forces managed to recapture a suburban area of the key city while inflicting heavy losses and casualties on the Takfiri...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... bully boys.

The latest operations by army-led forces were part of a larger offensive to entirely liberate the remaining areas surrounding Dayr al-Zawr still controlled by the terror group.

This is while Syrian state news agency SANA also reported Friday that army units clashed with ISISholy warriors in a number of neighborhoods in the town of Mihkan, south of al-Mayadeen city towards al-Bokmal city.

According to the report, government forces also killed and injured many of the Death Eaters during the offensive and destroyed a number of their vehicles, including booby-trapped ones.

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